Dispositional traits emerge first early in

Dispositional traits emerge first early in development when you are very young – you engage in behaviorsAs you grow into childhood and become an early teen, you begin to develop motivations, goals, and valuesMcAdams states there is a core identitythat someone has

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oCore identity is made up by having a person reflect and build stories about themselvesDebunk’dMyth – defining feature of dyslexia is reversing lettersoMany people believe reading problems people w/ dyslexia have is due to reversing letteroDyslexia is portrayed in media as visual disorder where people see words backwardsReality – defining feature of dyslexia is difficulty sounding out written wordsoDyslexia stems from difficulties w/ phonological processing of written works oDyslexic people have trouble sounding out phonemes & parsing out words into their phonemesOne study compared number of letter reversal errors that dyslexic & non-dyslexic made when spelling wordsoChildren produced same amount of letter reversal errors regardless of dyslexiaAnother study had children w/ and w/o dyslexia engage in phonological processing tasks like rhyming & matchingoDyslexic children showed impaired performance on phonological processing tasksExpression of Personality in Everyday LifeMost people can form a reasonable story w/ real events from life to explain how they’ve become who they areMost people can also explain how they’ve became something that they’re not which undermines the story about youoMaybe the story that you tell about how you became the person you are maynot be trueTruth or falsity of the story we tell about ourselves is NOT importantoWhat is important is the story we tell about ourselves gives our lives a sense of coherenceor meaningYou engage in behaviors as a child (actor) & you get more contextualized traits as you grow older (agent)oWe explore issues of identity in our teens and develop sense of coherent identity (author)When you get the sense that you really know something, it is their sense of identityoYou don’t really get a sense that you know someone until you know how theysee themselvesoWe make very fast judgments about other peoples’ personalities on basis of very little informationAbout 60% of people say you can learn about someone’s personality from their face & overall physical appearanceoAbout 65% of people say you can learn moderate or a lot about someone’s personality from FB profileoAbout 15% of people say you only learn what they want you to learn about them from FB profileTopic people most talk about when trying to get to know someone is music

Physical SpacePersonality research focuses on how people perceive themselves & how cues they give off are perceived by othersHow people perceive their own personality doesn’t always agree very well w/ how other people perceive themThere are 3 broad mechanisms that we use to leave traces of our personalities in our physical spaceso(1) Identity claims

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